The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-07-02
VOLUME XXI.
would be no room to drink or speak in
this time. 1t would simply be grand

would be no room to drink or speak In
this time. 1t would simply be grand
rush.
If he should stop for any thing--to
sweep the office, to bring water, to roll
for a job-how irretrieyably he would
compromise himself The stint once
set In type. the distribution could be
done the next day. But ah! that next
day would find Billy q hopeless slave,
and what was the use of accomplish
ing the stint if one could not go fish
ingP
Thus the long June days had come
upon Billy and found him sinking
deeper under the gigantic Labor Prob
lem. Week after week it would be
said of him, in terms of the deepest re-
proacll-much as they spoke of JEFF
Davis, for war times were on the land
that Billy had not set his stint once
in the whole week. while Ernest
Crivets, in the opposition Office, set his
two columns of long primer, day after
day.
The great Fourth-er-July APP
preached. The day was already fixed
"a week from Saturday-strange feel
ing of awe! We all have it when we
approach our idols. Flaming posters
filled every dead-wall. Had not the
foreman gained in every body's esteem
by working three-sheet bill in two
colorsp Prodigious feat! Gigantic in
tellect! 1.-The day we celebrated"
Eagles = arrows - thunderbolts - full
dash! That picture of the eagle cost
seven dollars at the type foundry. The
foreman had convinced the editor that
the Office must have a horse and an
eagle if it were to keep its good run OF
job work.
Now, with foreman working green
ink one day and red ink the next, and
making three-sheet posters that actual
ly went together, and that announced
Governor Morton, Joshua II. Giddings,
the Swamp Angels, the Lisbon Cadets,
the Poughkeepsie Silver Brass Band,
the creased pole, the smooth pig and
the race in meal-bags, how could the
cub in the office do any thing but fall
into contemplation of the grandeur OF
that day which had brought forth the
Declaration of Independence and made
tyranny trembleP
Having fallen into contemplation,
how could he get up his stintp
And so. after week of unutterable
gloom, going from bad to worse, tho
case of Billy came up at the family
table the night before the Fourth.
'.He hasn't set his stint single day
this week." said the good wife.
"Well, he'll have to set it to-mor
row-that's all" said the editor.
This decision was handed down from
the Supreme bench. Habeas corpus
| supersedeas, quo warranto, ay, tn
Declaration of Independence itsel
would not avail the offender. He mus
work, when no other human being il
that whole village would be at toll
Dreadful outcome of scheme con
ceived in the spirit of philanthropy
So thought Billy, or words to tina
end.
And yet what can not bright yout
accomplish 1t would be aybreak n
three o'clock. The boy took pillov
and lay down on the parlor lounge
At daybreak he was up and away.
At half-past three he was at worl
with three punches of fire-crackers
his trousers pocket and full accour
of the burning of the cathedral at Sal
tiago de Chill, the previous Christmas
9 on his case for copy.
: When the first cannon went off h
pied but half line 1t was the onl
;, break he made. A small boy loves
= chew thistlebloom and spit tobacco
juice, like men. He had no time ft
= any such adult tricks now.
At half-past six he came down IL
> stretch in front of time; he ran all IL
. way to the lake; at seven o'clock tt
;, boys padded ashore and took him int
the boat. At quarter to eight he ha
!, caught formidable snapping-turtl
= and was trying to borrow a Limeric
hook before cutting his line and lie
:. ting the kissing and horrible ogre SEQ
g free.
:. At eight o'clock, having lost h
= hook, he set up the cry of breakfas
:. which at once stampeded the fishin,
" party. A hurried swim followed, an
at nine o'clock there was a famine
i that editors household. Why shou
- good wife be so astonished when h,
- small boys eat wellP Wonders new,
- cease simply because people ket
wondering at the same thing over al
e over again.
= At ten o'clock the procession form
The small boys are frantic with excit
10 ment and joy. Possibly the grow
people, unconsciously, are goir
=, through the trouble and worry of it q
" for the benefit of the young one
-, With them it is timely celebration
~ The fire-crackers begin to settle into
- steady fusillade-a sound rs of muske
=. ~ in general action. In the midst
~ the orgy there is panic. The ba
:. barre Dutchy Fobes has thought
! would add to the fun to touch off Il
. three punches of tire-crackers IN Bill
Hill s pants-pocket.
i There lies the poor little fellow, fl
" on his back in the dust, strong mi
pulling at his clothes, but unable
a. help him. A tempest OF explosions.
~ senseless, small sufferer, an unexpect
procession to the editors house and
y afternoon of horror, with surgeons G
Z. aiming the wounds and pickil
~ powder and paper out of the flesh!
- Is he not white, this wee celebra
~ ~ who got so few hours sleep last nigl
:. who set type on tip-toe for three me-
tai hours. who ran mile to Blk